After three years of renovation, the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts reopened on Tuesday with a ceremony attended by many dignitaries including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The General Director of the museum Laszlo Baan expressed gratitude to people who worked restlessly during the three-year reconstruction of the museum, the country's first permanent museum of fine art that opened in 1906.

"The renovated Museum of Fine Arts is a cathedral dedicated to art," said Baan, adding "Art is one way of forgetting the threat of the shortness of human life."

Prime Minister Orban highlighted the importance of the cultural identity at the ceremony, saying "We must now defend our cultural identity and sovereignty in the swirling of the European cultural warfare."

He hinted at the division in the EU between liberals. "We live in peace with our own culture and our own history, and this is a thing for which we must be grateful," he concluded.

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